<p>A week before Christmas, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report accusing Russia of depressing Democrat voter turnout by targeting African-Americans on social media. Its authors<em>, New Knowledge</em>, quickly became a household name. Described by the <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/us/politics/facebook-suspends-alabama-elections.html">New York Times</a></em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/us/politics/facebook-suspends-alabama-elections.html">as a group of <strong><em>“tech specialists who lean Democratic,”</em></strong></a> New Knowledge has ties to both the U.S. military and the intelligence agencies.</p>

<p>The CEO and co-founder of New Knowledge, Jonathon Morgan, <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/darpa-creepiest-programs-for-human-control-how-dark-will-our-future-be_05122016">had previously worked for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)</a>, the U.S. military’s advanced research agency <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/conspiracy-fact-and-theory/insider-reveals-how-darpa-will-control-our-minds-if-even-20-of-this-is-true_03242017">known for horrific ideas on how to control humanity</a>. Morgan’s partner, Ryan Fox, is a 15-year veteran of the<a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/apples-new-faceid-could-be-a-powerful-mass-spying-tool_09142017"> NSA (National Security Agency) who</a> also worked as a computer analyst for the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Their unique skill sets have managed to attract the eye of authoritarian investors, who pumped $11 million into the company in 2018 alone, <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/447619-new-knowledge-russia-bots-scandal/">according to a report by <em>RT</em></a>.</p>

<p>Morgan and Fox have both struck gold in the <em>“</em>Russiagate<em>”</em> scheme, which sprung into being after Hillary Clinton blamed Moscow for Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016. Morgan, for example, is one of the developers of the Hamilton 68 Dashboard, the online tool that purports to monitor and expose narratives being pushed by the Kremlin on Twitter. And also worth mentioning, that dashboard is bankrolled by the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy – a collection of Democrats and neoconservatives funded in part by <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/ww3-alert-nato-readies-35000-troops-for-combat-amidst-russia-tensions_04182018">NATO (North AtTreaty Tready Organization)</a>and <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/conspiracy-fact-and-theory/house-overwhelmingly-passes-countering-information-warfare-act-to-stifle-press-freedom_12122016">USAID (United States Agency for International Development).</a></p>

<p>It is worth noting that the 600 <em>“</em>Russia-linked<em>”</em> Twitter accounts monitored by the dashboard is not disclosed to the public either, making it impossible to verify these claims. This inconvenience has not stopped Hamilton 68 from becoming a go-to source for hysteria-hungry journalists, however. Yet on December 19, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html"><em>New York Times</em>story</a> revealed that Morgan and his crew had created the fake army of Russian bots, as well as several fake Facebook groups, in order to discredit Republican candidate Roy Moore in Alabama’s 2017 special election for the U.S. Senate.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">From the way it was formed to the secrecy of its "methods" to the blatantly false assumptions on which its claims rest, "Hamilton68" is probably the single most successful media fraud & US propaganda campaign I've seen since I've been writing about politics. It's truly shocking.</p>
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<p><strong>Working on behalf of the Democrats, Morgan and his crew created an estimated 1,000 fake Twitter accounts with Russian names, and had them follow Moore. They also operated several Facebook pages where they posed as Alabama conservatives who wanted like-minded voters to support a write-in candidate instead</strong>. <strong>In an internal memo, New Knowledge boasted that it had</strong> <strong><em>“</em>orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet<em>.”</em></strong>–<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/447619-new-knowledge-russia-bots-scandal/"><em>RT</em></a></p>
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<p>This scandal is being perpetrated by the <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/21/how-the-media-enable-rep-adam-schiffs-russian-bot-conspiracy-theories/">United States media and has so far deceived millions,</a> if not more. The botnet claim made a splash on social media and was further amplified by <em><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/russian-propagandists-are-pushing-for-roy-moore-to-win/">Mother Jones</a></em>, which based its story on “expert opinion” from Morgan’s dubious creation, Hamilton 68.</p>

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<p>Things got even weirder when it turned out that Scott Shane, the author of <em>the Tim</em>es piece, had known about the meddling for months because he spoke at an event where the organizers boasted about it!</p>

<p>Shane was one of the speakers at a meeting in <strong>September, organized by American Engagement Technologies, a group run by Mikey Dickerson, President Barack Obama’s former tech czar. Dickerson explained how AET spent $100,000 on New Knowledge’s campaign to suppress Republican votes,</strong> “enrage<em>”</em> Democrats to boost turnout, and execute a <em>“</em>false flag<em>”</em> to hurt Moore. He dubbed it <em>“</em>Project Birmingham<em>.”<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/447619-new-knowledge-russia-bots-scandal/"> -RT</a></em></p>
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<p>There really was meddling in American democracy by <em>“</em>Russian bots.<em>”</em> Except those bots weren’t run from Moscow or St. Petersburg but from the offices of Democrat operatives chiefly responsible for creating and amplifying the <em>“</em>Russiagate<em>”</em> hysteria over the past two years in a <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/fbi-agent-fbi-leaked-stories-to-the-media-and-used-them-to-obtain-fisa-warrants_08282018">textbook case of psychological projection</a>, <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/new-study-robots-can-brainwash-children-into-mindless-conformity_08202018">brainwashing,</a> and <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/its-mostly-bullshit-cnn-producer-confirms-network-spews-fake-news-propaganda-anti-trump-agenda-for-better-ratings_06272017">Nazi-style propaganda </a>campaigns.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zerohedge/feed/~4/YtWEQDXweBQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>